UK protests US SDI project

Title

UK protests US SDI project

Genre

News report; Interview

TX Date

Unknown

Year of production

1985

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Duration

00:02:13

Description

Paul Maurice reports on the US government Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI or Star Wars project) using artificial intelligence computers and UK protests against it. Protesters including CND and Greenpeace have handed petitions into the American embassy in London. Speaking are veteran anti-nuclear campaigner Edward Palmer (E P) Thompson and Greenpeace member Colin Hines.

Contributors

Paul Maurice; Colin Hines; E. P. Thompson

Keywords

USA; UK; Nuclear weapons; Nuclear warfare; Anti-nuclear movements; National defence; Strategic Defense Initiative; Defence research; Petitioning

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